Quote: Originally Posted by
trader007 
the technology is obsolete. they should have seen this coming 15 years ago before the first satellite went up......
I wouldn't be too hard on them. There have been many so-called intelligent people that have said some very dumb things:
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
Ken Olson, president/founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977.
640K ought to be enough for anybody.
Bill Gates, 1981.
Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.
Lord Kelvin, ca. 1895, British mathematician and physicist
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.
Theoretically, television may be feasible, but I consider it an impossibility--a development which we should waste little time dreaming about.
Lee de Forest, 1926, inventor of the cathode ray tube.
This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.
Western Union internal memo, 1876.
Airplanes are interesting toys, but they have no military value.
Marshal Ferdinand Foch in 1911.
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
H. M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.
Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.
Barack Obama
however, i did say 15 years ago that satellite radio would never be cost effective, a lot of people did too. ... although i did not foresee the cellular internet networks to improve so fast.
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